Isla Caja de Muertos

Caja de Muertos is a small, dry island off the southern coast of Puerto Rico, near Ponce. Its rocky outline rises from the Caribbean, with reefs around the shore and dry forest on land. Its Spanish name means “coffin”; an eighteenth-century account associated the outline seen from the Puerto Rican coast with a body lying on a bier. The island stands in the approaches to the harbour of Ponce.